must not lose sight of the critical redistributive role of the fiscal system, particularly its impact on poverty and … and poverty in Albania, assessing the individual and combined effects of taxes and public social spending. The findings … show that the fiscal system in Albania plays a positive role in reducing inequality. Yet, it has a moderate poverty …

distribution, and this distributional change lowered the pro-poor impact of growth substantially. Without this change, poverty …

The debate on the environment-poverty nexus is inconclusive, with past research unable to identify the causal dynamics …. This paper uses a unique global panel data set that links (survey and census derived) poverty data to measures of … degree environmental quality matters for poverty reduction. The paper draws three main conclusions. (1) The environment …

income poverty rates among refugees with a gender lens. It finds distinguishing between different types of male and female … principal applicant (PA) households is important in the setting of Syrian refugees in Jordan. Poverty rates for couples with … children do not differ by gender of the PA but for other household types poverty rates are higher for those with female PAs …

An extensive literature on poverty traps suggests that high levels of poverty deter growth. However, a seemingly basic … implication of the underlying theoretical models, namely that countries suffering from higher levels of poverty should grow less … affect growth in opposing directions. Because inequality and poverty are different aspects of the income distribution …

registered a decline in poverty from 46 percent in 2010/11 to 39 percent in 2013/14. This declining poverty trend was broadly … national poverty numbers and corroborates the poverty rates published by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda …. Underlying the paper's conclusions is a detailed theoretical and analytical framework for making poverty comparisons over time …

This paper addresses whether microcredit participants in Bangladesh are trapped in poverty and debt, as many critics …, invest in children's schooling, and be lifted out of poverty. This is not to say that non-participants have failed to … of poverty reduction have been higher for participants. Testing the net effect of microcredit programs requires applying …